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[deleted] t1_j5u0dac wrote

Reply to comment by geo_mallory in A Common Thread, Thomas Blackshearr II, Oil and Gold Leaf, 2018 by GarageCrowking

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geo_mallory t1_j5u34u4 wrote

Yes, the Works Progress Administration was a New Deal program during the Great Depression in the US. Among the initiatives of the WPA were many visual arts programs, including lots of murals the style of many of which remind me of this piece.

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